# US 12,223,647 B2 · Method for identifying body constitution in traditional chinese medicine, and computing and processing device and non-transitory computer-readable medium thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,223,647 B2 - Document ID: US12223647B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/772,742 - Filed: 2021-07-26 - Published: 2024-05-23 - Granted: 2025-02-11 - Earliest claimed: 2021-07-26 - Assignees: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Sifan Wang - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12223647B2 ## CPC - G06T 7/0012: {Biomedical image inspection} - A61B 5/01: Measuring temperature of body parts {; Diagnostic temperature sensing, e.g. for malignant or inflamed tissue} (clinical contact thermometers G01K13/20) - G06T 2207/10048: Infrared image - G06T 2207/20081: Training; Learning - G06T 2207/30004: Biomedical image processing - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) ## Abstract The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for identifying a body constitution, an electronic device, a storage medium and a program, which relates to the technical field of computers. The method includes: acquiring an infrared human-body image of a target user; inputting the infrared human-body image into an infrared critical-point identifying model, to obtain a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point in the infrared human-body image; according to a temperature-distribution profile in the infrared human-body image, determining a temperature type of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point in the infrared human-body image; and according to the temperature type, identifying a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitution of the target user. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for identifying a body constitution in Traditional Chinese Medicine, wherein the method comprises: acquiring an infrared human-body image of a target user; inputting the infrared human-body image into an infrared critical-point identifying model, to obtain a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point in the infrared human-body image; according to a temperature-distribution profile in the infrared human-body image, determining a temperature type of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point in the infrared human-body image; and according to the temperature type, identifying a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitution of the target user, wherein the temperature type comprises at least one of a high-temperature types and a low-temperature type; and the step of, according to the temperature-distribution profile in the infrared human-body image, determining the temperature type of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point in the infrared human-body image comprises: determining maximum-temperature-value positions of a first quantity and/or minimum-temperature-value positions of a second quantity in the infrared human-body image; and determining the temperature type of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point that corresponds to an image region where the maximum-temperature-value positions are located as the high-temperature type, and/or determining the temperature type of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point that corresponds to an image region where the minimum-temperature-value positions are located as the low-temperature type; and wherein the step of determining the maximum-temperature-value positions of the first quantity and/or the minimum-temperature-value positions of the second quantity in the infrared human-body image comprises: by using a maximum-value filter, acquiring image positions where maximum temperature values of the first quantity are located in the infrared human-body image as the maximum-temperature-value positions; by using a mean value between a maximum temperature value and a minimum temperature value in the infrared human-body image as an inversion plane, inverting temperature values in the infrared human-body image; and by using the maximum-value filter, acquiring positions where maximum temperature values of the second quantity are located in the infrared human-body image that has been inverted as the minimum-temperature-value positions. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the infrared critical-point identifying model is obtained by the following steps: acquiring a natural-light critical-point identifying model and a sample infrared human-body image; marking the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point in the sample infrared human-body image; and performing transfer learning of the natural-light critical-point identifying model by using the sample infrared human-body image that has been marked, to obtain the infrared critical-point identifying model. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of performing transfer learning of the natural-light critical-point identifying model by using the sample infrared human-body image that has been marked, to obtain the infrared critical-point identifying model comprises: based on the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point, adjusting fully-connected-layer nodes of the natural-light critical-point identifying model; and while a model parameter of a feature-extraction layer is maintained unchanged, by using the sample infrared human-body image that has been marked, training the natural-light critical-point identifying model whose nodes have been adjusted, to obtain the infrared critical-point identifying model. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method according to claim 3, wherein original human-body critical points of the natural-light critical-point identifying model comprise the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point, and a quantity of the original human-body critical points is greater than a quantity of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point; and the step of, based on the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point, adjusting the fully-connected-layer nodes of the natural-light critical-point identifying model comprises: among the fully-connected-layer nodes of the natural-light critical-point identifying model, deleting a fully-connected-layer node whose node label corresponds to a human-body critical point that is not the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of, according to the temperature type, identifying the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitution of the target user comprises: in a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-body-constitution mapping relation, inquiring Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitutions that match with temperature types of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical points. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The method according to claim 4, wherein the step of, according to the temperature type, identifying the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitution of the target user comprises: in a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-body-constitution mapping relation, inquiring Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitutions that match with temperature types of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical points. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of performing transfer learning of the natural-light critical-point identifying model by using the sample infrared human-body image that has been marked, to obtain the infrared critical-point identifying model comprises: based on the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point, adjusting fully-connected-layer nodes of the natural-light critical-point identifying model; and by using the sample infrared human-body image that has been marked, training the natural-light critical-point identifying model whose nodes have been adjusted, to obtain the infrared critical-point identifying model. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of, according to the temperature type, identifying the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitution of the target user comprises: in a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-body-constitution mapping relation, inquiring Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitutions that match with temperature types of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical points. ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein a feature-extraction network in the natural-light critical-point identifying model is a lightweight feature-extraction network, wherein a parameter data volume of the lightweight feature-extraction network is less than a parameter data volume of an original feature-extraction network of the natural-light critical-point identifying model. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method according to claim 9, wherein the step of, according to the temperature type, identifying the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitution of the target user comprises: in a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-body-constitution mapping relation, inquiring Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitutions that match with temperature types of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical points. ### Claim 11 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical point comprises at least one of a head critical point, a neck critical point, a shoulder critical point, an elbow critical point, a hand critical point, an abdomen critical point, a crotch critical point, a knee critical point and a foot critical point. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The method according to claim 11, wherein the step of, according to the temperature type, identifying the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitution of the target user comprises: in a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-body-constitution mapping relation, inquiring Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitutions that match with temperature types of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical points. ### Claim 13 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of, according to the temperature type, identifying the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitution of the target user comprises: in a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-body-constitution mapping relation, inquiring Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitutions that match with temperature types of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical points. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of, according to the temperature type, identifying the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitution of the target user comprises: in a Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-body-constitution mapping relation, inquiring Traditional-Chinese-Medicine body constitutions that match with temperature types of the Traditional-Chinese-Medicine human-body critical points. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) A computing and processing device, wherein the computing and processing device comprises: a memory storing a computer-readable code; and one or more processors, wherein when the computer-readable code is executed by the one or more processors, the computing and processing device executes the method for identifying a body constitution in Traditional Chinese Medicine according to claim 1. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) A non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the computer-readable medium stores a computer program of the method for identifying a body constitution in Traditional Chinese Medicine according to claim 1.